50 years ago, a diver by the name of Richard Long founded a company called Diving Unlimited International – or DUI. DUI has become famous for their top-of-the-line drysuits but unbeknownst to me, they do a lot more than that. They provide equipment for recreational weekend divers, technical divers, public safety divers, commercial divers, military […]

In the winter of 1942, two French men by the names of Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan invented something that would drastically alter the interactions between humans and our watery planet. This invention was deemed the Aqua-Lung. It allowed those gill-less people to peer into the depths and observe an alien world, the underwater world. Previous […]

What a journey I’m about to embark upon! I was notified in March that I was selected to be the next North American Rolex Scholar for the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society (quite the mouthful!). I have been dreaming of this incredible opportunity ever since I heard about it during a scientific diving internship at the […]

  On mission with Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and the International League of Conservation Photographers representing iLCP, photographer Michele Westmorland and I had the unique opportunity to shoot the turquoise waters where Tahiti’s famous black pearls are grown.   Pearls come in a rainbow of colors, but Gambier has the reputation for the […]

The Living Ocean Foundation team is hard at work at Hao Atoll, far flung in the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia. We’re six days into the first EVER comprehensive reef assessment for this beautiful coral atoll. Normally I would feel right at home on the fish team counting schools, but this cruise has a twist. […]